(5)(a)No mode or type of capping shall be used, which fails to withstand a load of at least ten times the maximum static load thereon.(b)The cappel of a round rope shall not be attached to the rope by rivets passing through the rope.(c)No bent back wire type cappel shall be used with winding rope.(d)Where white metal is used in the capping of ropes, the tapered portion of the socket shall not be less than six and a half times the diameter of the rope for the size up to 26 millimeter and seven and one third times in case of ropes of diameters higher than 26 millimeter.(e)If white metal is used in the capping of ropes,-(i)its melting point shall not exceed 300 degrees centigrade, and its temperature when poured into the socket shall not exceed 363 degrees centigrade;(ii)in the length of rope which is to lie within the tapered part of the socket, the fibre core, if any, shall be cut and the wires shall be untwisted and thoroughly cleaned;(iii)the socket shall be heated to a temperature of about 100 degrees centigrade before the white metal is poured into it.
